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LENVIS O. CHASE, OFWAUPUN, WVISCONSIN.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,098, dated January 15, 1884.

Application filed September 22, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, L. G. OHAsE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waupun, in the county of Fond du Lac and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hay-Carriers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a side view of my invention, showing the same applied to a track-rail, and partly sectioned to show its interior mechanism; and Fig. 2 is an end View of the car, showing the track-rail in transverse section. Fig. 8 is a view of a side elevation of my device, showing the hook'of the catch Z engaging the pulleystem, and partly sectioned to show the latch raised.

This invention has relation to hay-carriers; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of devices, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims appended.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a designates the track-rail.

b designates the car, supported from the track by arms having flanged wheels in the ordinary manner. The rope c is attached to a twisted link, (I, pivoted in the lower portion of the car near one end. It passes under the pulley c, that carries the fork, and over a sheave, in the other end of the car. From the sheave f it passes under a detachable pulley, g, at the end of the track, and over a pulley, 2, suspended from the purlin-plate 7c, and thence under a pulley connected to the floor. The car is provided with a pivoted catch, Z, having a hook, 122, at its lower end, which engages aneye, a, in the stem 0 of the pulleyframe, when the latter is drawn up by the rope. The stem of the pulley e is disengaged from catch Z by a pivoted latch, p, in a recess, q, in

the under face of the track when the upper barbed end of the catch lcomes in contact therewith, and the pulley and fork are permitted to descend to the floor.

It is necessary in using hay-carriers to unload at both sides of the barn; and I have made provision for the necessary change, which I effect with but little trouble and very little loss of time. The latch p is so pivoted in its recess that it may be turned up vertically therein, to permit the car to pass in either direction without tripping the latch, so that the car may traverse the track as often as desired to make the required changes. An attendant rides upon the fork until the pulleystem engages the hook of the catch. The car is then started for the other end of the track by a rope attached thereto, and immediately after it starts the pivot-latch p, which, when turned down, forms a stop, is turned up vertically, as shown, Fig. 8, and the car will run over the track without engaging the catch Z as often as may be necessary. The operator then goes to the end of the track, takes the pulley g and carries it to the other end of the track, and hangs it there. He then re verses the car on the track, runs back to the pivoted latch, whichis set to unlock the stem of the pulley, and descends to the floor of the barn.

To disengage the catch Zfrom the latch p, the car must be pulled away from the latch 19 in the direction of the curve of the engaging arm Z of the catch Z, when the beveled hook end of said arm 1 will slip off from the latch 19.

The track is suspended in any well-known manner. 1

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a hay-carrier, a reversible latch, pivoted in a recess in the track, and adapted to engage or pass the trip latch in the car when set, substantially as specified.

2. In a hay-carrier, the combination, with a track having a reversible latch pivoted in a recess in its under face, of a car having a tripcatch with a hook for engaging the pulleyframe, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses:

R. L. OLIVER, W. W. HATOHER.

LEWIS C. CHASE. 

